Merry Christmas!
I wish I could have been around to enjoy downtown at Christmas when Main Street was still Main Street and merchants went all out to celebrate the holidays as shown in this 1968 Oklahoman photo.
Of course, it’s not that bad now either. The lighting of the tree in Bricktown in 1996 was a particularly fun event, complete with fireworks. I wasn’t there this time around (got sick) so I don’t know if we had fireworks this time around or not.
Anyway, Santa is on his way, the kids are asleep, and some cookies are out on the kitchen table. Good night everybody, and have a wonderful Christmas!
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Happy Festivus. I purchased your 2nd time around book for my mom for xmas and she was looking through the photos and reading about main street and all she could do was talk about how she always loved going to downtown with her grandmother and seeing all the stores, going to a movie afterwards and taking the bus back home. It would be nice to be able to live that time again.
Thanks guys. And Festivus, thank you so much for taking such an interest in the book. I guess I’ll take this opportunity to do a bit of self promotion – I have a smaller book with about 200 photos coming out on Jan. 19 about Bricktown (Arcadia Publishing). And then the same gang (including award-winning designer Carl Brune) that created OKC Second Time Around is set to release a similar book on the Skirvin later in 2009.
Steve, Merry Christmas to you too, and thanks for all your hard work reporting on downtown/bricktown/midtown OKC this year. A job well done, and much appreciated!